Chris Coco - Next Wave

Chris Coco ventures out with Next Wave, which starts of promisingly enough with “Falling (G1).” It transposes Satie’s “Gymnopedies” into an ambient dub setting, though that has as much to do with Satie as it does with Coco. The album continues in a slow drift of ambience -- be sure you’re lying down in a comfortable position before listening. Tracks like “Hazy Lazy” give that dreamy quality a little kick drum. There certainly is an Ibiza vibe running through the album, and I think that it hampers the music somewhat, since Coco seems consciously trying to conform his music to the norm. Even his more recent albums as Coco Steel and Lovebomb didn’t follow Ibiza as much as they were simply played in Ibiza. The hype seems to have gotten to him, but he still manages a decent album.